Wenxiong
Chen
Professor of Mathematics
Wilf campus - Belfer Hall
Room#1120
Wenxiong Chen joined Yeshiva University in 2002 as a Professor.
He held previous positions at
Missouri State University (Assistant, Associate, and Professor 1991--2001),
University of California, Los Angeles (Visiting Associate Professor 1996-1997),
University of Arizona (Visiting Assistant Professor 1990-1991),
and University of Pennsylvania (Visiting Assistant Professor 1987-1990).
He is an internationally well-known and influential mathematician, a world leading expert in the area of nonlinear elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations.
He has been listed as one of the world leading scientists in mathematics by the research.com.
Research interests include nonlinear elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations, fractional Laplacians
and other non-local operators, nonlinear functional analysis, and geometric analysis.
Teaching experiences include introductory as well as advanced mathematics courses.
Has received six research grants from the National Science Foundation, among which he was
the Principal Investigator in five of the grants.
Received two grants from the Simons Foundation.
Received the Foundation Award for Research from the Missouri State University.
Received Professor of the Year Award in 2023.
Over 80 papers published in refereed journals including many in prestigious journals such as Annals of Math., Comm. Pure and Appl. Math., Duke Math. J., Advances in Math., J. of Diff. Geom., and Arch. Rat. Mech. Anal..
Published two professional books.
Many of his papers are highly cited, including the following
1. W. Chen, C. Li, Classification of solutions of some nonlinear elliptic equations, Duke Math. J. 63(1991) 615-622
has been cited 1,215 times.
2. W. Chen, C. Li, B. Ou, Classification of solutions for an integral equation, CPAM, 59(2006) 330-343
has been cited 885 times.
3. W. Chen, C. Li, and Y. Li, A direct method of moving planes for the fractional Laplacian, Adv. Math. 308 (2017) 404-437
has been cited 355 times.
4. So far, his papers has been cited 7065 times with H-index 40.
Here the citation numbers are from Google-Scholar as of Aug. 12, 2024.
Wilf campus - Belfer Hall
Room#1120